why do parents always dismiss our opinions? In their eyes, everything is a phase. Can't we actually THINK something with out being patted on the head and laughed at? Considering all that teens have done, when are they going to take us seriously? And other thing, why, just because they were "our age once", do they think they understand us? Do they think ALL teen cliches are true? I thought we were all different and intellegent human beings. Aren't we complex? Are we that easy to figure out?

My parents do that to,the always think everything i do is a phase and im going to grow out of it a couple of years. I think the reason why parents do that is because they are in denial. They dont like the way we have become or dont agree with our overall style or attitude, so they say were gonna grow out of it to make themselves feel better and to make them feel they havent fail as parents.For some odd reasons from the day we were born our parents have planned out the next twenty years of our lives,and if it does not go according to plan it must be a phase. They just need to accept it and get over it.But what can we do,its like in their parent nature or somthin.

Well, that's just a problem with imperfection. And besides, isn't some times the same 4 d adults? They provide you stuff and you sometimes dont listen to them, and if they embarass u(like being over protective and stuff), dont you get mad and dont hear out their reason sumtimes? Its just a cycle or miss understandings and miscommunication..

Alot of Adults do treat teens like they have no opinions, but that could just be because they aren't judging you by how old you are or what you're experiences and ideas, but by how old you LOOK and what they've heard from other people about you. Even teens treat younger kids like they don't know anything, I used to treat my cousins (5 and 8) like they were babies who didn't understand anything (as well as making jokes and being sarcastic which i thought they wouldn't catch on to, I was wrong woops!) but then i thought back to when i was 8 and realized that was alot more competant than I looked...so anyway sorry for getting off track hehe but my point is...well I don't have much of a point, but perhaps we should just deal with it

I simply think that some teens exaggerate "not being taken seriously." I hear so many people talking about how they have no voice and how no one takes them seriously, but it isn't as if teens lack any basic rights. Other than the right to vote, which is given to teens at the age of 18, younger teens can speak out just as much as anyone else, and if they actually spoke out more about serious issues, more adults would take them seriously. It's unfortunate, but the reason that most teens aren't taken seriously is because they don't speak out and they don't care about real issues. Obviously many people on this site do, but that's a small percentage of the teenage population. Out of most of the people I knew in high school, very few of them knew what was going on in the world, and even fewer than that cared, yet they still complained about no one taking them seriously.

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Anyone here writing what they think can be considered as whining.

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No, a lot of what is written here can be considered debating. This topic can be considered whining.

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I thought the whole point of having these boards was not to yell at each other about "whining"

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The point of this site is debate. I don't recall yelling at you, and I didn't disrespect your opinion in any way. Disagreeing with you is not automatically disrespectful. It would have been disrespectful if I called you names or insulted you in some way. Everyone here doesn't have to agree, and if they did, it wouldn't be any fun.

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I don't know why people don't take you seriously. Most adults took me seriously, even in high school and middle school. Hmm..maybe it was because I didn't run around whining about not being taken seriously when there are other countries that deny entire races and genders basic rights.

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I thought the whole point of having these boards was not to yell at each other about "whining", it was to respect people's opinons and views. Anyone here writing what they think can be considered as whining. And yes there are other countries denying rights but is america perfect? No. So I don't think we should shield our views from all the problems concerning our home by trying to be a superhero and saying "oh that poor country, let's help them" So don't start that whole "be happy with what you go thing" because that is what put us in the place we are now. We think we're perfect and look away from our problems since they ruin our image. I do have compassion for those other people and I feel horrible for them but there's people in america that are living in a hell. Shouldn't we take care of them first?

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I don't know why people don't take you seriously. Most adults took me seriously, even in high school and middle school. Hmm..maybe it was because I didn't run around whining about not being taken seriously when there are other countries that deny entire races and genders basic rights.

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Thats crazy talk!

I don't know why people don't take you seriously. Most adults took me seriously, even in high school and middle school. Hmm..maybe it was because I didn't run around whining about not being taken seriously when there are other countries that deny entire races and genders basic rights.

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Some of these kids (especially punks and goths) are so stupid it makes me mad.

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hey man, dont judge a book by its cover, that expression should work, right? not everyone is the same, and not all goths or punks are the same!

Most kids that are ignored by adults are ignored because they're idiots. I have no problem making adults listen because I use logic, not anger or stupidity. Some of these kids (especially punks and goths) are so stupid it makes me mad.

My parents never do that, but they don't like listening to my opinions. It's funny - My dad actually gets MAD when he knows that I'm right in a debate. He gets angry. Many parents and adults don't like people of younger age to know more than they do. They think that 'just because they were our age once' that they've learned the exact same things we have. And it's NOT TRUE. Many parents just don't like bothering with our opinions. They think that our 'time to lead' will come, they just don't want to let us lead just yet because 'their' parents didn't let them lead at their age. It's like a kind of revenge. Odd and unfair, I know. But *shrugs* what can we do about it in a world like this?